From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhastehaste /heΙͺst/ βββ noun [uncountable]1HURRYgreat speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough timeSYN hurry
I soon regretted my haste.in your haste to do something
In his haste to leave, he forgot his briefcase.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say hurry rather than haste:In my hurry, I left my coat behind.2 βin haste3 βmake haste4 βmore haste less speedExamples from the Corpushasteβ’ She scaled its steep side in breathlesshaste.β’ They were on the run, and in haste, or we should all be dead men.β’ I had to write in haste.β’ More haste, less speed, Madam!β’ Complexnegotiations followed, in an atmosphere of haste, as Reagan would take office on January 20.β’ There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepydrivers with an almost recklesshaste.β’ But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?in your haste to do somethingβ’ Callinicos, in his haste tocounter aestheticism, reduces the aesthetic.β’ Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.β’ Then she rushed back towards the stairs, almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor.β’ He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cottonshirt, fumblingin their haste toundo the buttons.β’ The vultures eat greedily, fighting over scraps, slipping off the rockin their haste toconsume.Originhaste(1200-1300)Old French
